Yedda, Co-Founder and CTO
Israel
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- CTO Yedda at AOL
- CTO at Yedda
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- VP R&D at SmarTeam
- R&D Director, Web Technologies at SmarTeam
- Team Leader, R&D Manager, Web Technologies at SmarTeam
- Chief Software Architect at IDF, Intelligence Corps
- Developer at HyperAct (Self-employed)
- Developer at Sitav Software
- Developer at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Education
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- Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
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Yaniv Golan’s Summary
Experienced software development manager with strong management, technological and leadership skills.
Yaniv Golan’s Specialties:
Web Development, Win32, .NET, server applications, user interface and user experience design, object relation mapping (ORM), web services, data modeling, XML, standards, accessibility, social applications, Web 2.0.
Yaniv Golan’s Experience
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CTO Yedda
AOL
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (11 months)
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CTO
Yedda
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Co-Founder, Yedda http://yedda.com
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VP R&D
SmarTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DASTY; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — March 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Managed the R&D department, providing managerial, architectural and technological leadership.
Managed a development organization of 60 developers.
Responsible for research, development, maintenance, architecture and technology
Worked directly with large customers to define requirements, deliver solutions and support implementations:
- NOKIA, IBM, ACER, Comverse, TEVA, BOEING, Bosch, Goodyear and others
Worked directly with Microsoft and IBM development groups as early adapter.
- Microsoft: .NET, SharePoint Server, MS SQL Server, MS Index Server, Windows 2003, BizTalk Server, Office, .NET My Services
- IBM WebSphere: WAS, WPS, WBI, DB2, Lotus Notes
Assisted in pre-sale efforts with large customers
Selected achievements:
- Transformation to a development organization capable of multiple parallel releases concurrently and efficiently
- Transformation from Windows-centric, workgroup solution into a Cross Platform, Web-based, Enterprise level solution -
R&D Director, Web Technologies
SmarTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DASTY; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for platform and technologies
Selected achievements:
- Led the development of SmarTeam’s web platform
- Led the migration to Web Services and to .NET
- Architected iXF, authored iXF Specification:
XML-based industry standard for integrating and exchanging product, plant, or project information throughout manufacturing enterprises and their supply chains; extensible standard for transferring data, metadata and related files.
- Innovated industry-first support for MS ASP.NET on IBM WebSphere Application Server. -
Team Leader, R&D Manager, Web Technologies
SmarTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for the development of SmarTeam’s web technology
Selected achievements:
- Created the first SmarTeam web clients
- Led the migration to COM technology
- Scaled up a single-threaded desktop engine into a multi-threaded server application
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Chief Software Architect
IDF, Intelligence Corps
(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)
September 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 1 month)
Responsible for the entire lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, support and operation) of a distributed Geographical Information System deployed at multiple military and industrial customers.
Led the development of the following technologies:
- Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) database engine
-- Metadata driven, Industrial-strength, GIS-enabled
- Declarative GUI
- GIS data processing engine & GIS GUI (vector and raster images and maps)
- Archiving and processing solutions for Very Large Data Files
Initially part of the R&D unit of the Intelligence Corps; Later, played major role in the creation of a new software development organization
Led special projects abroad
Awarded Head Intelligence Corps Award for Creative Thinking -
Developer
HyperAct (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — January 1997 (3 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented innovative solutions for:
- Hypertext single-source authoring and viewing
-Web application development
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Developer
Sitav Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years)
Designed and developed a report designer specializing in mining and analyzing performance and transactions data from mainframe-class systems.
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Developer
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Designed and developed telephony solutions based on specialized hardware used by commercial for automatic mass telemarketing, phone-based orders, contacts management.
Yaniv Golan’s Education
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Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
BSc, Computer Science, 1991 — 1995
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Yaniv Golan’s Interests:
technology, social software, object relational, photography, ...
Yaniv Golan’s Groups:
• Led Microsoft’s Israeli .NET Users Group (2001)
• Member of KMi (Knowledge Management Israel) club (2005), GeekCon, KinnerNet
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Yaniv Golan’s Honors:
Head Intelligence Corps Award for Creative Thinking
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